Washing-machine



(No Model.) V

D. L. PERRY.

WASHING MACHINE.

No. 333,886. Patented Jan. 5, 1886.

[Me/liar? #JMW 7 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

DAVID LUTHER PERRY, OF MOUNT SOLON, VIRGINIA.

WASHING-MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 333,886, dated January 5, 1886.

Application filed July 11. 18S5. Serial No. 171,356. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, D. L. PERRY, of Mount Solon, in Augusta county and State of Virginia, have invented an Improved Washing Machine, of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates, generally, to that class of washing machines in which the clothes are arranged between two friction surfaces, of which one rotates and the other does not.

The invention will first be described in connection with thedrawings, and then pointed out in the claims.

Figure l of the drawings is a plan view, with the cover thrown back. Fig. 2 is afront elevation. 1

In the drawings, A represents the frame,

having platform a, in the center of which is pivoted the tub B by means of a pivot and step-bearing. This tub carries on its bottom a fixed friction-surface, C, which of course vibrates back and forth with it, while a similar friction-surface, C, constitutes the rubber and rests upon the clothes or articles which are being washed.

D represents the lifter, by which the rubber C may be raised and lowered. It may have one or more arms, (1 d, which pass vertically up through the hinged piece E, and the handles d on a cross-bar, against which the piece E strikes in turning upon its hinges. By this means the turning back of the cover carries out of the tub and swings back the rubber, giving the washer an opportunity to insert or remove the clothes. The hinged piece E has a handle, 6, and is slotted to fit over a tenon, b, on the tub-frame A to hold it fast.

F is a lever,which is pivoted on the central arm or rod, (1, and fits in a recess, 1), of tub, so that when the operator seizes the handle 6 with his left hand he may seize the lever F with his right and rotate the tub with the lower rubber, O.

G is a bar pivoted to the hinged piece E at one side, open-slotted at g in the lower end, and movable on a guide and stop pin, 9, on the frame. The hinged piece Ebeing thrown back is supported in position by the bar G on the stop-pin g. The clothes are then arranged on the rubber O, and the rubber 0 holds them in position by its own gravity; or additional weight may besecured on the lifter D.

This construction, arrangement, and combination of parts enables any person of moderate strength to fix everything and do the work with comparatively little labor, while there is no wheel, pinion, or mechanism likely to get out of order. It may also be afforded to the public at a very moderate price.

Of course I am aware that it is not broadly new to rotate the upper or lower friction-surface or to rotate a tub; but

\Vhat I do claim as new, and desire to protect by Letters Patent, is-

1. The combination of the part 0, the lifter D, and the hinged piece E, having the end slotted bar, G,with frame A, having the stoppin g, whereby the parts 0 D E F may be conveniently held out of the way while the clothes are being put in or removed from the tub.

2. The combination, with the bot-tom pivoted tub, of the lever F, locking in the tubnotch b and fulerumed on the central bar, d, whereby the tub may be turned by hand, as described.

DAVID LUTHER PERRY.

\Vitnesses:

LOGAN TURNER, J. A. RIDDEL. 

